howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Who is paying for it all Barry?
Wages down in real terms £1600 on average per person.
Public sector wages frozen.
Benefits Frozen.
A million people using food banks.
Public services cut to the bone.
The office of budget responsibility says that we are not even halfway with public spending cuts.
The price would be a lot higher if spending cuts were not made. Look at France. There is no easy way out the crisis created by Brown and his like. Statements such as your add nothing to the debate. You cannot change the laws of mathematics and endless wringing of hands about what has to be done will not help anyone.
By the way, public services are not cut to the bone and not only can be cut further, whole functions of the State could be done away with. Benefits remain too high as well and the public sector did not suffer the pay cuts felt in the private sector early in the crisis so no sympathy there either. Thankfully the malign influence of the Unions is not present in most of the private sector these days so a flexible approach to wages saved millions of jobs.
As for food banks - I am not totally convinced of the figures for that at all, or even whether all those using them them are really 'needy'... photos of people using smart phone while getting food from food banks is evidence of that.